Pictured is a rendering of an $18 million addition to Joe Aillet Stadium in the South end zone. The complex will be finished before the 2015 season.

Written by

Sean Isabella
Louisiana Gannett

Less than a month after Louisiana Tech unveiled plans for upgraded basketball facilities, the university on Monday released updated football plans for a major expansion in the south end zone of Joe Aillet Stadium.

Tech president Les Guice and athletic director Tommy McClelland announced the school will have a new 70,000-square-foot-plus complex completed by the start of the 2015 football season.

The $18 million project, which is another face-lift to the athletic program in Tech's first year as a member of Conference USA, is scheduled to begin this spring. ...